America's Romance with the English Garden
By Thomas J. Mickey.
Description
The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories—in other words, the quintessential English-style garden.America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of s...
ISBN(s)
0821420356, 9780821420355
